OSINT-6 CHANGELOG 260813

OSINT-6 publishes reference books about real countries, governments, institutions, weapons, and events. Political material is unavoidable whenever a book identifies who holds authority, what an institution can legally do, which order changed a policy, or what occurred during a conflict. Political advocacy is avoidable.

Our job is to establish the facts required by the reference. That includes names, offices, dates, jurisdictions, organizations, documented actions, and the status of claims at the research cutoff. It also includes uncertainty. A disputed claim must be identified as disputed. Incomplete information can't be presented as settled, and an official statement can't automatically be treated as independent confirmation of its own assertions.

None of those decisions requires us to announce whether we approve of the person, government, policy, institution, or event being described. Listing an officeholder isn't an endorsement. Citing a law or executive action doesn't express support for it. Recording that a military, agency, political organization, or armed group took part in an event doesn't declare allegiance to or opposition against that participant.

This boundary doesn't make the books empty or evasive. A useful Factbook still has to explain authority, capabilities, relationships, conflicts, restrictions, and operational conditions. Removing every politically sensitive fact would make the reference inaccurate. Adding our personal judgment would give the book a second purpose it isn't meant to serve.

Readers can reach their own conclusions from the documented material. They may agree or disagree with one another, the sources, or the decisions made by the institutions described. OSINT-6 won't attempt to settle those disagreements through an editorial declaration.

The policy is straightforward: state what the reference needs, identify the source and date, distinguish fact from claim or assessment, and stop before description becomes advocacy.